Happy for you

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This is just quick post to let you know that I am happy that you ended R with the man you talking about in your Blog. However- keep in mind that not all people with substance abuse are NPDs and some behaviors you describing can be related to SA more than to NPD. You can not understand their mind, unless you been there. Many conclusions you come to may be not NPD related and part of his own reality you don’t understand. I think- best thing to do is to stay in social circle you belong to. If you are not in to drugs, why in a world date the guy who is in to? Many problems you experienced are related to the fact that you just had not enough in common with this man, or were not able to relate to one part of his life that at given time was important to him. Not saying you were supposed to unable him or support his addiction- just saying- many things he has done may have nothing to do with NPD. What you describing is so common- I am surprised- you are even surprised. I am very happy that for you this experience is over and you safely moving to new things. Good luck.

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Yeah- this is from one of sam's writings:

Many scholars consider pathological narcissism to be a form of depressive illness. This is the position of the authoritative magazine "Psychology Today". The life of the typical narcissist is indeed punctuated with recurrent bouts of dysphoria (ubiquitous sadness and hopelessness) , anhedonia (loss of the ability to feel pleasure), and clinical forms of depression (cyclothymic, dysthymic, or other). This picture is further obfuscated by the frequent presence of mood disorders, such as Bipolar I (co-morbidity) .

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No thank you, not even a comment? That is a good start.